Re: Review: WD My Passport Essential portable hard drive

2011-08-22 Thread Travis Siegel
On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: But I will say this about the large models, the power supplies are absolutely dreadful. They die more frequently than the drives. Unfortunately, this seems to be a common problem. I've found the lacie external drives to be of excellent

Re: Tune-Up Utilities 2012 [Revisited]

2011-11-01 Thread Travis Siegel
The simple fact of the matter is that most windows software does use tab and arrow keys to access things, so when one doesn't, it feels broken to folks who are used to the tab/arrow approach. Much like apple tries to enforce certain standards for developers working on osx, because folks

Re: I want to listen to KNX in Los Angelees

2011-11-27 Thread Travis Siegel
Have you tried a google search for knx and listen? It will almost always turn up a web site/feed where you can listen online. === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription

Re: I want to listen to KNX in Los Angelees

2011-11-27 Thread Travis Siegel
The url is: http://player.radio.com/player/RadioPlayer.php? version=1.2.12495station=95 A pain to find, (at least in the source, but there it is, give that a try. === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and

Re: I want to listen to KNX in Los Angelees

2011-11-27 Thread Travis Siegel
And, if it truly claims the feed is only for the us, there's ways around that too, a simple script to forward the page, and feed back the url would solve that problem nicely, though I doubt it's necessary in this case. === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum

Alexander Graham Bell recordings

2011-12-14 Thread Travis Siegel
This is pretty cool. Some scientists have now managed to recover and play back some of the earliest recordings from the inventor of the telephone. It's quite a good read, give it a look. http://news.yahoo.com/alexander-graham-bell-recordings- played-1880s-210138693.html

Re: an html question

2011-12-24 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm guessing you're stuck with it. Just like vo says header level 1, or header level 2 when you use the h1 /h1 and h2 /h2 tags, it's built-in, so your out of luck. I don't bother with blockquotes, I just separate the quotes with P tags, then quote them myself using standard double quote

Re: News Radio

2011-12-24 Thread Travis Siegel
KYW is an AM newsradio station based in Philadelphia, though I don't know if they have an internet feed anywhere. I'm not in that area anymore (haven't been in many years) but I'd wager they're still around. Fairly decent station for news, it's all news all the time. hth.

Re: News Radio

2011-12-24 Thread Travis Siegel
Ok, never mind, KYW was already mentioned. === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at

Re: Window-Eyes

2011-12-25 Thread Travis Siegel
nvda is open source, it can't be taken away from the market, unless they somehow withdraw every single copy of the source they ever distributed. Not possible. And, even if they do, there's nothing stopping someone else from forking the source, and starting another version. No worries on

Re: Screen-Readers

2012-01-02 Thread Travis Siegel
Uhh, I must correct one misconception in this email. Ms *did* produce a screen reader years ago. At that time, a few screenreader manufacturers blew their top, threatened all sorts of legal action, and (surprisingly enough) ms caved. They didn't toss their efforts entirely though, they turned

Re: Sharing data between Mac and Windows

2012-03-08 Thread Travis Siegel
Mac has no problem sharing data with the mac, and vice versa. On windows, you need to specifically share the folders in question where you want to put things you want to share, (right clicking on the file folder in windows explorer allows you to set the sharing status) and on mac, as long

Re: Our Blogs

2012-05-13 Thread Travis Siegel
These sorts of things are exactly why I don't purchase domains from anyone but myself. And, also why I don't use prehosted blog sites. You can install wordpress anywhere, it doesn't have to be on their servers, and you can handle your own domains, no reason to pay anyone to hand over a

Re: the good old days of TV

2012-05-24 Thread Travis Siegel
Interesting Martin. You mention that the 2 Meter band goes from 144 to 148 here, but then that means my little handheld radio I bought at Radio shack some 10+ years ago is a bit more than it claims. It goes from 144 all the way up to somewhere beyond 163 or so. Any idea why it was

Re: the good old days of TV

2012-05-24 Thread Travis Siegel
On May 24, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: Hi Travis I can confirm the 2 meter amateur band is 144 to 148 MHZ in the Americas. What you'll probably find above that range is PMR, (Public Mobile Radio). Ahh, that is probably quite accurate, used to listen to police, fire,

Re: Closed Captions Was the good old days of TV

2012-05-29 Thread Travis Siegel
I always wondered why nobody ever built a box that could read these closed caption streams. I realize that to some, this would seem silly, if you can hear the dialog, then why use the cc being read via computer? Well, I'm thinking more in the vain of foreign language broadcasts that have

C64 and pc xt (was Closed Captions)

2012-05-29 Thread Travis Siegel
I used the c64 myself, my brother had one, and although I don't remember what the name of the speech synthesizer was called, I do remember that it cost 60 bucks, and came on a cartridge, so you had to plug the cartridge into the keyboard, then anything that came up on the screen would

Re: Screen-Readers

2012-06-05 Thread Travis Siegel
Gordon, it seems their standard operating procedure is the same no matter what product you're talking about. I'd bought a used braille printer (a versapoint bp some or other) and freedom scientific/blazie had just bought enabling technologies, the original makers of that particular model

Re: Is Anybody Up For Testing For Us? Our Radio Project

2013-01-04 Thread Travis Siegel
Don't know if this is still up for testing, but if it is, it's not working. :) Server is not responding. :) I've very often considered creating something similar, having a show, or something like it. Only thing is, I'm horrible with deadlines, and I'd never be able to keep to a schedule.

Re: Sparkle Radio: Update

2013-01-05 Thread Travis Siegel
Ahh, yes, it works just fine now. I use quicktime, but it works with the itunes link, so all is good. Just thought you'd like to know. It sounds ok, though I expected better quality now that we have a 10MBPS connection, but such is life. :) === The

Re: Small World

2013-04-09 Thread Travis Siegel
I read an article somewhere (can't remember where, maybe science news) describing the process of patching the transatlantic cable. They used a ship (a rather large one) and it had hooks that dropped down to the bottom of the ocean, grabbed both ends of the broken cable, and brought it up

Re: In Google we Trust

2013-09-11 Thread Travis Siegel
Thanks for the mp3 link. Anyone these days who thinks their internet surfing is their own needs a reality check. There's absolutely no way to completely cover your tracks. You can make it harder though. Generally I use lynx on a linux box when doing most of my internet searches. I tell

Re: Next Generation Braille Notetaker Just Released

2013-11-14 Thread Travis Siegel
On Nov 2, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: I count myself extremely lucky and I don't mind admitting that I just happened to be in the very right place at the very right time, there was someone I knew who was going to do away with his Voice Sense, he'd switched to IOS devices. I

Re: Braille

2013-11-18 Thread Travis Siegel
My understanding of the english vs. american braille is that your system uses the first possible contraction, regardless of where it falls in the word. So, as you said, appear would have the ea symbol, followed by the r. American braille doesn't break up sylabols, (though that doesn't

Re: Doodles With Dimension: 3-D Printing Simplified

2014-02-25 Thread Travis Siegel
I actually participated in this kickstarter. I thought this would be an excellent way for me to build prototypes, project boxes, and missing parts for various toys we have around the house that constantly need fixing. I did pledge at the lowest level, and was promised my pen by january

Re: Remembering a Big Solar Flare March 8, 1989

2014-03-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Martin, you mentioned electronic equipment getting out of whack, and strange things happening to it. Well, I have a small heater I keep on a shelf in my bedroom for those nights it gets too cold for simple blankets and feather beds to cope. What I find, is that during the times this

Re: Remembering a Big Solar Flare March 8, 1989

2014-03-15 Thread Travis Siegel
On Mar 15, 2014, at 4:18 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Do you think your heater's coil is a dynamic coil thereby picking up stuff like that? It's possible, but I have no way of knowing without opening it up, and I'd rather not do that while it still works. *grin* It's one of those round

Re: Remembering a Big Solar Flare March 8, 1989

2014-03-17 Thread Travis Siegel
Ahh, yes, thank you Martin, I was hoping you'd pipe up with an explanation. I knew it all made sense, I just didn't know why it worked as it does. Glad you cleared that up for me. :) === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware,

Re: Purchasing a laptop

2014-04-11 Thread Travis Siegel
Check tigerdirect.com. They're always running specials. In fact, I got an email last week about a $249 laptop that was quite high quality for the price. Sometimes, the stuff is refurbished instead of new, but for the price, I don't think you can do better. Give them a look see. Now, if

Re: merging a folder with ncftp?

2014-09-23 Thread Travis Siegel
Rget is intended to continue an interrupted transfer, not sync a folder that already exists. I've actually not tried to sync folders via ftp the way you are doing. Normally, a perl/bash script would be run on the host system (in this case, yours) comparing the two folders, then ftp is

[Techno-Chat]; Re: [Techno-Chat]; One Blind Guy’s Experience with Android. How accessible is it really? | Mosen Consulting

2016-06-16 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]; Passing Along A Suggestion

2016-06-16 Thread Travis Siegel
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[Techno-Chat]; Re: [Techno-Chat]; Blind Apple engineer speaks on the company’s deep commitment to accessibility features

2016-07-12 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]; Yesterday Was Federal Election Day In Australia

2016-07-03 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]: Andy, run Android on your Desktop

2017-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]: Andy, run Android on your Desktop

2017-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]: Andy, run Android on your Desktop

2017-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]; Banana Pi

2016-08-22 Thread Travis Siegel
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[Techno-Chat]: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Review: RAVPower RP-PB14 Xtreme – The Last Portable Battery You’ll Ever Need?

2016-09-20 Thread Travis Siegel
I want to get one of these, and rig it up in a case of some sort with my raspberry pi. I wonder how long it could power the pi. Someone I saw online built a laptop into a case, and used a battery similar to this one, and it ran for about 2 days off of one charge of this battery. I'd have to

Re: [Techno-Chat]; SMS Messages

2016-08-22 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]: RE: [Techno-Chat]: Article: Saying Goodbye to the Mac – Mosen Consulting

2016-11-24 Thread Travis Siegel
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Re: [Techno-Chat]: Reading ePub books

2017-06-30 Thread Travis Siegel
I know a lot of folks don't like this option, but for me, it works well. An epub file is just a zip file with all the contents of the book compressed into a single file. All you need to do to read an epub book is extract the file, then navigate to the html files, and read them with your

Re: [Techno-Chat]: MP3 Is Dead!

2017-05-16 Thread Travis Siegel
Ahh, the mp3 being dead is a misnomer. Sure, the company that owns it isn't offering anymore licenses, but this is because their patents on the format is expiring. This means it's no longer necessary to buy a license, to be able to create and distribute mp3 formatted files. I figured this

[Techno-Chat]: Trump orders kaspersky products removed from government networks

2017-09-13 Thread Travis Siegel
This should prove interesting. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-kaspersky/trump-administration-orders-purge-of-kaspersky-products-from-u-s-government-idUSKCN1BO2CH --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Thinking Of Branching Out

2017-09-05 Thread Travis Siegel
The raspberry pi is a nice little computer, and it can be made accessible.  However, you don't have to wait to own a pi to learn how to use one.  The raspberry pi uses a version of linux, so any linux machine will teach you how to use the pi as well.  I have multiple raspberry pis, and I even

RE: [Techno-Chat]: epub reader in testing

2019-09-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Message- From: Travis Siegel Sent: 13 September 2019 21:02 To: techno-chat@techno-chat.net Subject: [Techno-Chat]: epub reader in testing Anyone willing to take up the challenge is welcome to test my softcon reader epub reader. You can find it at http://www.softcon.comm/files/softconreader.exe

[Techno-Chat]: epub reader in testing

2019-09-13 Thread Travis Siegel
Anyone willing to take up the challenge is welcome to test my softcon reader epub reader. You can find it at http://www.softcon.comm/files/softconreader.exe or you can just go to http://www.softcon.com/files/ and see it there, along with anything else that is currently out there for use. It's

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Chromebook Up And Running

2020-04-17 Thread Travis Siegel
I tried a chromebook last year, when I bought it for my daughter. I found it usable, but extremely limited in what it can do. It would appear that if you're looking to do anything online, (basically, anything browser based), then chrome os is a perfect fit for you. If however, you're like